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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, March 19, 1972
Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 19, 1972
PASS-NO ENTRY CONSIDERED
Committee studies alternatives
to
present grading
(Continued from Page 1)
try basis.
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structor for small classes under The LSA Curriculum Committee
40 students. approved the system for all Pilot
-Above 300-level courses be The written evaluation is a tourses on a trial basis. Last term,
graded on an A, B, C, D, No Entry summing-up of the student's each class had the option of us-
basis. Freshmen and sophomores; achievement in the course. ing the system.
could elect these courses on a According to James Robertson, According to Tom Lobe, direc-
Pass-No Entry basis or on a grad- dean of RC, the evaluation meth- tor of the Pilot. Program, the pass-.
ed basis. od requires "extraordinary effort no entry system is superior to oth-
Juniors and seniors be able to to know the students. It is tailor- er systems.
elect one course per term on a made for small classes, as a dis- "Since most of the teachers live
Pass-No Entry basis, in addition criminating measure of student in the dorm and know the stu-
to introductory Pass-No Entry progress." dents well, they don't like to flunk
.courses. ,..S
-Inst:uctors of above 300-level "It's a satisfying way to live. students," Lobe says. "We would
courses be informed of the grad- Students are not bucking for a B like to distinguish between a puni-
ing system chosen by the student or A, but are free to figure what tive grade - such as fail - and
The ystCUE proposal sressstb the learning experience can be in a minimum amount of work done
development of methods of eval- a mutual partnership between - such as with pass-no entry."
uation including a portfolio of the teacher and student," Robertson! Lobe sees the pass-no entry as
best work of the student, anony- adds. a better alternative to other grad-
mous exams, and peer evaluations. The instructor decides if a ing systems.
Under current confusing LSA course should be pass-fail, but ac- "No-entry is not as punitive as
regulations, an upperclass student cording to Robertson, instructors a fail. Teachers can expect more
can elect only one pass-failecourse of "onlythree or four" classes re- from students. If students do
per term if he has a grade point ject pass-fail and choose letter crummy work, they can take the
average of 2.0 or above. The course grading. course again."
cannot be counted toward distri- According tokRobertson, most Students can elect up to eight
bution, concentration or certifica-, RC freshmen take two-thirds of credits per year of Pilot courses
tion requirements. the year's course load within the within their regular program.
There are two exceptions to RC. Sophomores, juniors and The medical school since Fall
the basic rules, however. Any stu- seniors elect an average of one- term '69 has also used a Pass-No
dent regardless of class year can fourth to one-half RC courses, and Entry system. In small classes, the
elect courses pass-fail counting the remaining proportion in the instructor also writes a short
toward the foreign language re- literary college, comment on the student's work
quirement. In addition, a student The Pilot Program, an experi- which becomes part of the stu-
who elects a course which is com- , mental programwithinLSA in- dent's record but not part of the
pletely on a pass-fail basis (for. tended primarily for freshmen and transcript.
example, Psychology 171) can sophomores who live in Alice Lloyd The instructor, similar to RC's
elect only one other pass-fail Hall, switched to a Pass-No Entry option, can choose to use a Pass-
course that term. No student can system this term. No Entry and comment combina-
elect more than two pass-fail
courses per term. I -------
tion in classes with a small stu-,
dent-faculty ratio.
Though the students are not
permitted to see the comments,
the review board looks them over
if the student is having academ-
ic difficulty. The dean also uses
I the comments to write letters of
recommendation necessary for ap-.
plications for internship programs.
The student can then read the
letter and discuss it with the dean.
According to Dr. Charles Vo-
taw, associate dean for curriculum,'
the evaluations are the most im-
portant part of the system.
"In professional school you must
evaluate whether a student can
deal with patients and colleagues.
The quantification of grades is
an inaccurate evaluation," he says. LSA's current policy, a student
Several other schools within the with at least a 2.0 grade point av-
University are considering alterna- erage could elect one course per
tive grading systems. Though these term on a pass-fail basis. The
proposals are not close to passage, course could not be a required:
they are now under debate. course, but second term freshmen,
The School of Natural Re- unlike under LSA's policy, could
sources, for example, is consider- exercise the option.
ing several proposals, according to The grade would be automat-
an administrator of the school. ically translated to pass or fail
One plan suggests a total by the Registrar's Office - with
change to Pass-No Entry. one exception. If the student re-
A modified proposal would al ; ceived a grade higher in the course'
low instructors the option of eval- than his grade point average, the
uating a course on a pass-fail student would receive the grade
basis. instead of a "Pass."
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